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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️

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Short For Bob. Naval & Maritime Historian. AFRHistS Royal Historical Society. Council Member: Society for Nautical Research. PhD Student @ Exeter Uni. Day Job in Offshore Security. Rower. Owned by a Dog 🐾 katejamieson.co.uk / IG: katejamieson_

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 4d

Oh nooooo that's not what you want especially when you've been going all night

Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 5d

So clear!

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 8d

Haha, when I get some time off work and spare ££ to get back to the alps 😂

I used all of my annual leave this year on Antarctica

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 8d

9 years ago today. Time doth fly.

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 16d

The sighs emitted by this dog. Surrounded by toys, 3-4 walks a day, all the snacks, has claimed most of the household furniture as his own, and contributes nothing to the mortgage or bills...

What ails you, my little freeloader?

Cruelly dragged from Greece as a stray to live a life of hardship 🙄

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 16d

I turned up as the Redoutable struck her colours so... 😂

Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 17d

Popped down to see Trafalgar being played by the Naval Wargames Society ⚓️

All figures by @warlordgames.com bar 2 on the table.

I should probably finish painting and rigging mine at some point...

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 17d

I genuinely never understood why people like any of these films, and I was always deeply concerned about the person who came up with the challenges for the films? I feel like they must be secret serial killers

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Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social · 29d

Watery environments don't usually mix well with libraries, but we've found a way to make it work!

"Decks and Wrecks: a Voyage through Maritime Art and Archaeology" is now available for you to peruse on the ground floor.

A collection of books arranged on a table, all on the subject of maritime art and archaeology

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 18d

Every time you use stupid ChatGPT, a thing that I once saw get a long multiplication sum wrong, it uses ten times as much electricity as searching the same thing on Google and the server cooling systems mean each use consumes half a litre of water.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 18d

Happy #WorldAnimalDay!

There were a few animals on the Mary Rose, some invited, others no so much...

maryrose.org/blog/the-ani...

The skeleton of the Mary Rose's dog, Hatch.

A frosted acrylic outline of a rat, with four bones resting on itl, including a pelvis.

a blurry microscope image of a flea, recovered from a piece of sackcloth recovered from the Mary Rose.

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 18d

Oh 100000% 😂 he did good, as the kids say

Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 18d

Well see this is what I mean I got loads of really good advice from a senior partner I know at HFW yesterday. So I know the options, I'm just trying to find somebody who might have already done it

Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

So I currently work in private maritime security

Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

I am currently working in subsea cable installation which is also damp 😂

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

I think the lawyerly bit but ofc maritime is where I'd head based on the last decade of work. And wet rather than dry

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

Oh no they're great songs

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

Ahaha imagine

Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

I was talking to somebody from HFW yesterday who gave me some really good advice. He also said that there are a few firms that take on people who aren't lawyers but can do the maritime side of things so maybe that's a better way of trying to find a role although I suspect they are fairly limited

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah and somebody told me you could go straight to SQE but it would be making life very very difficult for yourself. I did a year of Law as an undergrad but the way it was taught was just awful and I didn't get on with it

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah so a lot of the stuff over here is geared up to applying for training contracts when you're in your final year of undergrad and there isn't a lot on there about making a switch with relevant industry experience in your 30s/alternative routes

Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

Find yourself someone who knows you're having a chaotic awful work day already and deliveroos you snacks 😂💕🥰

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

😂😂😂

Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

There are obviously quite a few Master Mariners and people who don't have a legal background working in maritime law, so the solicitor route isn't necessarily the only way to go but any advice would be welcomed

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Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social · 19d

I've had lots of advice and been told that my day job background would create me a very perfect niche in the legal world in a world that is only becoming more hostile.

It's just the practicalities that my brain struggles with. All of the advice online seems to be geared up to new grads

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